Tessa Kelly shares her experience unblocking users while building quality software, explains how to avoid the "accessibility dongle" using the Elm philosophy, and considers some tesk9/accessible-html design changes.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.04.04

Guest

• Tessa Kelly (https://github.com/tesk9)

Show notes

[00:00:13] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:47] Introducing Tessa Kelly (she needs no introduction)

• Elm Town 9 - Getting Started
• Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly
• Elm Radio - (2020) Holiday Special!
• Elm Radio - Accessibility in Elm
• tesk9/accessible-html
• tesk9/palette
• "Functional Data Structures" at elm-conf 2016
• "Accessibility with Elm" at elm-conf 2017
• "Writing Testable Elm" at elm-conf 2019
• Software Unscripted - Accessibility in Practice with the Accessibilibats! 🦇

[00:01:25] Tessa is stealing her brother's life

[00:03:48] The early days of Elm at NoRedInk

• NoRedInk/noredink-ui
• "The life of a file" by Evan Czaplicki at Elm Europe 2017

[00:08:17] Motivation for building tesk9/accessible-html

• The Four Principles of Accessibility - POUR

[00:12:40] Not disempowering people

"Don’t assume that you’re the default. Make space for there to be other ways of being.” - runner Lauren Fleshman on the Daily Stoic podcast

[00:18:32] The business motivation for accessibility

• Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

[00:25:51] The tests are there for you

[00:28:07] Using Elm philosophy to avoid the "accessibility dongle"

• Elm philosophy tweet

[00:34:31] accessible-html design ideas

[00:44:53] How do you feel about CSS?

[00:49:00] What's going on at NoRedInk?

• "Word Labels" by Tessa Kelly on the NoRedInk blog.

[00:52:35] Picks

Tessa's picks

• "Research Through Broken Lenses: The Need to ‘Shift Left’ in UX Research" by Michele Williams at axe-con 2023
• All of the axe-con 2023 talks
• Jeroen Engel's elm-review

Jared's picks

• Aaron VonderHaar's elm-program-test
• Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
• The End of This Day's Business by Katharine Burdekin